Directed by:
Robin CampilloScreenplay:
Robin CampilloCinematography:
Jeanne LapoirieComposer:
Arnaud RebotiniCast:
Adèle Haenel, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Antoine Reinartz, Félix Maritaud, Médhi Touré, Aloïse Sauvage, François Rabette, Simon Bourgade (more)VOD (3)
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The lives of AIDS activists in early 90s Paris are reimagined in bold and vivid detail in 120 BPM, a stunning and heart-wrenching drama from the writer of Palme d’Or winner The Class, Robin Campillo. Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes 2017 and a host of international awards, this is an essential work of cinema with a profoundly moving and delicately crafted love story at its heart. As the AIDS epidemic tears through their community, the members of ACT UP Paris are fighting for survival. While they battle against governmental apathy, pharmaceutical greed and public ignorance, they also go out partying, debate politics and, occasionally, fall in love. One day, as outspoken radical Sean (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) strikes up a conversation with shy newcomer Nathan (Arnaud Valois), they have no idea that their lives are about to change forever. Based on the director’s own experiences, this vibrant and deeply emotional drama rushes with youthful energy, balancing powerful themes of social justice with euphoric moments of spine-tingling sensuality. Urgent and affecting, it’s a film about life, death, passion, tragedy - and, above all, the will to survive. (Curzon Artificial Eye)
(more)Cast
Adèle Haenel
France
Best movies:
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
The Devils (2002)
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
Argentina
Best movies:
One Year, One Night (2022)
Persian Lessons (2020)
See You Up There (2017)
Arnaud Valois
France
Best movies:
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)
Client (2008)
The Girl on the Train (2009)
Antoine Reinartz
Best movies:
Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)
School Life (2019)
Félix Maritaud
France
Best movies:
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)
I Am Jonas (2018) (TV movie)
Sauvage (2018)
Médhi Touré
Best movies:
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)
Aloïse Sauvage
Best movies:
Cold War (2018)
The Specials (2019)
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)
François Rabette
Best movies:
SK1 (2014)
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)
Les Grands Esprits (2017)
Simon Bourgade
Best movies:
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)
Catherine Vinatier
Best movies:
A Good Year (2006)
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)
The Traveller (2019) (series)
Saadia Bentaïeb
Best movies:
Custody (2017)
Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
Ghost Tropic (2019)
Pascal Tantot
Best movies:
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)
Up for Love (2016)
Sex, Love & Therapy (2014)
Ariel Borenstein
Best movies:
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)
Théophile Ray
Best movies:
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)
Simon Guélat
Switzerland
Best movies:
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)
Jean-François Auguste
Best movies:
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)
Femmes de loi (2000) (series)
Les Cordier, juge et flic (1992) (series)
Coralie Russier
Best movies:
Custody (2017)
Stella (2019) (TV movie)
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)
Samuel Churin
Best movies:
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)
Normandy Nude (2018)
Jean-Noël Martin
Best movies:
J'ai vu tuer Ben Barka (2005)
La Belle Epoque (2019)
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)
Bachir Saïfi
Best movies:
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)
The Brats (2013)